Life Church Houston

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by canam

Jimbo as he was known, when he was growing up, is the pastor now, his son, and its shall we say, totally different now ?

A lot of folks seem to have looked at the recent past (the last couple of generations - since about the 1950s) and saw that there was a lot of stuff that actually hinders the Apostolic message.

I can't speak for the pastor named here, but I have seen some of the "changes" and I think that they're good and don't even involve the basics of the Apostolic message. Some people just fixate on the externals and can't see the things that are eternal.

Is eternity really concerned with how you wore your hair yesterday and whether or not your shirt sleeves touched your elbows?

[crakjak]

Originally Posted by pelathais

A lot of folks seem to have looked at the recent past (the last couple of generations - since about the 1950s) and saw that there was a lot of stuff that actually hinders the Apostolic message.

I can't speak for the pastor named here, but I have seen some of the "changes" and I think that they're good and don't even involve the basics of the Apostolic message. Some people just fixate on the externals and can't see the things that are eternal.

Is eternity really concerned with how you wore your hair yesterday and whether or not your shirt sleeves touched your elbows?

No, "eternity" is much more mature than that!! Much deeper!

[canam]

Originally Posted by pelathais

A lot of folks seem to have looked at the recent past (the last couple of generations - since about the 1950s) and saw that there was a lot of stuff that actually hinders the Apostolic message.

I can't speak for the pastor named here, but I have seen some of the "changes" and I think that they're good and don't even involve the basics of the Apostolic message. Some people just fixate on the externals and can't see the things that are eternal.

Is eternity really concerned with how you wore your hair yesterday and whether or not your shirt sleeves touched your elbows?

[hawks-cry]

Well,...I have no idea how it is now (haven't been in Texas for several decades now). But Life Tabernacle had some really "hard" standards, that's for sure. In the late 60's I put some flower stickers on the back of my dark red '66 Mustang. Bro. Kilgore saw it out in the parking lot, and really gave me a "scalding" for trying to look like the hippies. I didn't know much about the hippies, but I just liked flowers. Had to strip 'em off. Your hair had to be up and perfect (for the sisters) and the hemlines and sleeves had to be just right. And you had better for SURE never miss a service,...nooosireeeee! I had very recently looked at their current website for the church,...and definitely got the impression that it was different than when I remembered it. Yeah,..Jimbo was just a little shirt-tailed kid when I knew him.